{"id":4814,"date":"2003-12-30T09:33:12","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2003-12-30T09:33:12","modified_gmt":"2003-12-30T16:33:12","slug":"the_root_of_all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/30\/the_root_of_all.html","title":{"rendered":"The Root of All Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margie, as was mentioned briefly before, is suffering from a Serious Tooth Ailment, leading to great pain and general misery.  It&#8217;s pretty clearly (as she describes it) an abcess.  The inimitable Doctor Dave (not me, a family dentist friend) prescribed some amoxycillin, and she&#8217;s been regularly downing acetominophen with codeine.  The pain comes and goes, but more of the former than the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday she got a reference to a local dentist, who took $65 of her money to tell her that it was a tooth that had already had root canal done on it, and thus naught could be done.  But the amoxycillin should be kicking in Real Soon Now, so have a nice day.<\/p>\n<p>Visit with our own dentist is scheduled for next Thursday at home.  Urk.<\/p>\n<p>Not that she&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defectiveyeti.com\/archives\/000794.html\">only one <\/a>slogging through pain this festive season, but it&#8217;s a not-happy time for her.  I&#8217;m hoping the promised Real Soon Now turns out to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margie, as was mentioned briefly before, is suffering from a Serious Tooth Ailment, leading to great pain and general misery. It&#8217;s pretty clearly (as she describes it) an abcess. 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